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Active inductive inference in children and adults: A constructivist perspective

2023-04-26

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<p>A defining aspect of being human is an ability to reason about the world by generating and adapting ideas and hypotheses. Here we explore how this ability develops by comparing children's and adults' active search and explicit hypothesis generation patterns in a task that mimics the open-ended process of scientific induction. In our experiment, 54 children (aged 8.97+-1.11) and 50 adults performed inductive inf...

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Literature Corpus work: 9fd74e82-6b28-5fc2-9562-637001f56dfb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/tbm4n

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